Toilet



26, 1922. 1,439,748 C. ,C- MOORE.

TOILET. FILED APR. 6, 1922. 3 SHEETS-SHEET I Dec. 26, 1922. 1,439,748

C. C. MOORE.

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TOILET. v FILED APR. 6, 1922, 3 SHEETS'SHEET 3 Patented Dec. 26, 1922.

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, TOILET.

Application filed April 6,-

To all whom itmag concemz' 1 Be it known that 1, CHARLES C. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at El Paso. in the county of El Paso and State of Texas. have invented a new and useful Toilet, of which the following is a specification.

This invention aims to provide a simple means whereby persons in a car may be permitted to use a toilet whilst the car ispassing through places wherein it is forbidden to permit defecatory matter to be deposited along the right of way, it being possible to dump the matter collected when an opportune occasion arises, an unauthorized dumping being practically impossible.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation, portions being broken away; Figure 2 is a sectional detail showing the key; Figure 3 is an end elevation; Figure 4 is a sectional detail showing the ball and socket joint; Figure 5 is an elevation showing the 1 opposite end :of the structure from that delineated in Figure 3; Figure 6 is a sectional view showing the coupling.

The numeral 3 designates suitable means for discharging water into a toilet 2 on the floor 1 of a car. Hangers 4 depend from the floor 1 and carry a tank 5 supported from the floor by a brace 6, a pipe 18 leading from the toilet 2 to the tank. The tank 5 has a sloping bottom 7 provided in its lowermost portion with a depressed channel 8 communicating with a nipple 10 on one end wall of the tank. An angular spout 9 is provided. Any suitable-means may be supplied for connecting the spout to the tank for swinging movement. If desired, the spout 9 may have a flange 12 cooperating with a flange 11 on the nipple 10 of the tank, to receive a packing 50, a ring 14 being threaded on the flange 11 and having a lip 15 engaging the flange 12, a set screw 16 in the ring engaging the flange 11. Any suitable coupling, however, may be provided at the point indicated. The free end of the spout 9 is beveled as at 52 to fit against a wear plate 17 on the floor 1. when the spout 1s swung upwardly.

The means for swinging the spout 9 embodies bearings 19 on the hangers 4, a shaft 20 being journaled in the bearings and being" rovided at one end with a crank arm 21 W erein a wrist pin 22 is rotatable. The

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.IlllH'l6l2ll 23 marks a crank arm having an angularly disposed finger 24- journaled and held in the wrist pin 22. The rod 23 is threaded for adjustment into a socket 25 terminating in a stem 28 connected by a ball and socket joint 26 with a horizontally swinging arm 27 on. the lower end of a shaft 29 journaled in a bearing 30 on the floor 1, the shaft terminating, above the floor, in a tubular head 31 adapted to receive a key 33 having a projection 3 L received in a slot 32 in the head. A stop 35 on the floor 1 limits the swinging movement of the arm 27.

On that end of the shaft 20 which is remote from the arm 21 is fixed an arm 36. There is an arm 37 on the spout 9. The ends of an angular link 38 are pivoted to the arms 36 and 37. A stop 39 on the adjacent end of the tank 5 limits the upward swinging movement of the arm 37.

hen the spout 9 is swung upwardly into the position shown in. Figure '5, the contents of the tank 5 cannot flow away, and the tank may be used freely without depositing excreta on the ground. When the car passes out of the city or other restricted area, an attendant seats the key 33 in the head 31 of the shaft 29 and rotates the shaft, the arm 27 and the connection 23 rotating the shaft 20 through the instrumentality of the arm 21, the arm 36, the link 38 and the arm 37 swinging the spout 9 downwardly into the inclined position shown in dash line in. Figure 5, whereupon the contents of the tank 5 will be discharged through the spout.

What is claimed is:-

1.-In a device of the class described, a tank; a toilet discharging thereinto; an angular spout constituting an outlet for the tank and rotatable thereon; and means under the control of an operator for swinging the spout upwardly and downwardly from a remote point.

2. In. a device of the class described, tank; a toilet discharging into the tank; means for controlling the flow from the tank. said means embodying a shaft; and a key adapted for detachable connection with the shaft. r

3. In a device of the class described, a tank; a toilet discharging into the tank; an angular spout connected to the tank for swinging movement, and) constituting an outlet for the tank; a shaft supported for rotation; means for connecting the shaft with the spout; and means for operating the shaft from a remote point 4;. Ina device of the class described, a floor; a tank located below the floor; atoilet disposed above the floor and discharging into the tank; an angular spout constituting an outlet for the tank and connected thereto for swinging movement; an arm on the spout; a shaft supported for rotation and having arms; a link connecting one arm of the shaft With the arm on the spout; a sec- 0nd shaft rotatable in the floor and having an arm; and a connection between the arm on the second shaft and the other arm on the first specified shaft.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

- CHARLES C. MOORE.

Witnesses:

JAMES G. HART, CHAS. DREHUER, J r. 

